Sentence examples for breakthrough as an actor from inspiring English sources

His breakthrough as an actor came when he was a teenager and met the director Eric Rohmer.

Mr. Timberlake's real breakthrough moment as an actor came, improbably, on "SNL" in 2006.

His Broadway breakthrough as a singing actor -- and actor-singer -- came in the 1979 "Oklahoma!," not as Curley, the hero who hails a beautiful morning, but as Jud, the brooding villain of the night.

He began to turn down chances to play supporting roles in films and was intent on making a breakthrough as a lead actor and notably turned down the role of Swarnamalya's fiancée in Mani Ratnam's Alaipayuthey.

Calling the role "a breakthrough" for him as an actor, it won him two Baftas.

It was a style breakthrough as well as perhaps something of an emotional one as well for the former child actor.

Brad Pitt received thundering applause and cheers when he came out to introduce actor David Oyelowo, recipient of the award for a breakthrough performance by an actor for his role as Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma".

Mr. Rickman's gloriously sneering performance as the terrorist and thief Hans Gruber in the 1988 megahit "Die Hard" was not only his breakthrough role as a film actor but is widely regarded by aficionados as a bad guy for the ages.Lewis Beale Wilmington, N.C.

Before his breakthrough role as a romantic actor in 2000, he was married to Sarita Birje and has a young son.

What is your process as an actor?

You do the script as an actor.